The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those who Would Speak and Write with ProprietyD. Appleton, 1881 - 220 sayfa |
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Sayfa 17
... grammarians defend this use of the possessive case , arguing that somebody else is a compound noun . " It is bet- ter grammar and more euphonious to consider else as being an adjective , and to form the possessive by adding the ...
... grammarians defend this use of the possessive case , arguing that somebody else is a compound noun . " It is bet- ter grammar and more euphonious to consider else as being an adjective , and to form the possessive by adding the ...
Sayfa 31
... grammarians have not exceeded their province in condemning them . " Cobbett , in writing of the pronouns , says : " When the relatives are placed in the sentence at a distance from their antecedents or verbs or prepositions , the ear ...
... grammarians have not exceeded their province in condemning them . " Cobbett , in writing of the pronouns , says : " When the relatives are placed in the sentence at a distance from their antecedents or verbs or prepositions , the ear ...
Sayfa 32
... grammarians , " says Dr. Bain , in his Higher English Grammar , " " have laid down this rule : ' The verb to be has the same case after as before it . ' Macaulay censures the following as a solecism : ' It was him that Horace Wal- pole ...
... grammarians , " says Dr. Bain , in his Higher English Grammar , " " have laid down this rule : ' The verb to be has the same case after as before it . ' Macaulay censures the following as a solecism : ' It was him that Horace Wal- pole ...
Sayfa 33
... grammarians , is very often in the nominative case . Moi is in the nominative case when used in reply to " Who is there ? " and also in the phrase " C'est moi , " which makes " It is 7 " the correct translation of the phrase , and not ...
... grammarians , is very often in the nominative case . Moi is in the nominative case when used in reply to " Who is there ? " and also in the phrase " C'est moi , " which makes " It is 7 " the correct translation of the phrase , and not ...
Sayfa 54
... two . Buckle should have written one another and not each other , unless he meant to intimate that the Germans had only two great authors , which is not probable . Eat . Grammarians differ very widely with regard to the 54 THE VERBALIST .
... two . Buckle should have written one another and not each other , unless he meant to intimate that the Germans had only two great authors , which is not probable . Eat . Grammarians differ very widely with regard to the 54 THE VERBALIST .
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adjective adverb American appear authority better built called careful writers clause Cobbett comma common Composition coördinating correct diction doubt Elizabeth Proctor ellipsis English English Language error euphonious example expression Fitzedward Hall frequently friends gentleman give grammar grammarians hear idiom idiomatic imperfect tense improperly incorrect John kind Knights Templars lady language Latin less lish lived matter means meant Metonymy mind misused mood neuter never nice noun object opinion participle passive persons phrase PLEONASM plural possessive preposition present Professor pronoun proper properly propriety qualify reason reference relative reply Rhetoric Richard Grant White rule Sally Brown sense sentence simply singular solecism speak speech style subjunctive subjunctive mood superfluous syllable synonym taste tence tense term thing thou thought tion tive tongue Townsend truth unfrequently usage utter verb vulgar woman word is sometimes